Catherine Wiley

Catherine Wiley

  • College of Liberal Arts

    English

    Associate Professor - Instructional

    Programs
    • First Year Writing Program

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Global Studies
Office Location

Mazur Hall, 913

Expertise

Victorian, Aesthetics, Sexuality, Gender, Modernism, Essays

Biography

Catherine Wiley has written on the intersection of aesthetics, sexuality, and identity formation, particularly in the work of late-Victorian essayists such as Walter Pater and Vernon Lee, originally stemming from a curiosity about the dramatic shift from Victorian forms of literature to those of modernist texts.

Selected Publications

  • “‘Warming Me Like a Cordial’: The Ethos of the Body in Vernon Lee’s Aesthetics,” Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetic, eds. Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Courses Taught

  • The Modern Novel, Introduction to English Studies, Women in Literature, The Quest for Utopia, Survey of English Literature 1660-1900, First-Year Writing